[OAS NODE #1]: When is #TITMOTA? And why?

From the notes of Jez Bold[NOTE]: The Occupational Art School Node #1 will launch its 3-month residency at Bat Haus in Bushwick (Brooklyn, NYC) with multi-faceted dimensional ana-event conducted by the incomparable Jez Bold, titled "Time in the Mind of the Anarchives." Below is the ana-press release #Jez3Prez has composed for #TITMOTA.] 

Axioms:

1. #TITMOTA is a show otherwise known as "Time in the Mind of the Anarchives"  
2. #TITMOTA has at least 2 parts, Part 1: Presentation/Performance and Part 2: Potluck & Potlache
3. You don't need to come to both (or either) to understand the #Anarchives, but you may get a better idea of what we're talking about.
4. You can start here, if you want: http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/es/e-misferica-91/jez3prezaatchu

Have you ever seen a work of art change over time?  Or watched a complex idea emerge from many unintentional steps?  For the Anarchives, process is product is process: each recorded moment brings a new iteration in an evolving work of art.  History itself is changing over time and each documented moment is an opportunity for a new interpretation.

Would you like to understand more?

Join Bold Jez, anarchivist, at the opening of the newly founded Occupational Art School for his 1st solo show called "TIME IN THE MIND OF THE ANARCHIVES."  Examine a collection of strange and familiar objects.  Discover what the universe looks like when refracted through the infinite panels of the K(rystalleido)scope.   Join him for a performance-presentation "Recording Future History: Activist archivism in Occupy Wall Street" to learn more about how the Anarchives altered recent history and informed the origins of OWS. 

As stated by #Jez3Prez, anarchist candidate for Prezident, "In order to radically change our history, we must revolutionize our concept of time." The site of historical struggle can begin anywhere, and here it begins by infiltrating the archive.

Magic Mountain

*Time in the Mind of the Anarchives, Pt 1 [#TITMOTA][August 9, 2012 at OAS Node #1][BAT HAUS, Bushwick]

• 7 pm
  • Wander/wonder/wait/explore (discover drawings inside of journals, find movies inside books, look for scenes on the ceiling)
• 8 pm 
  • Presentation/Performance "Recording Future History: Activist archivism in Occupy Wall Street" featuring:
    • - #LiveReports from the 1st General Assembly of OWS 2011.Aug.2, "testing wall street" 2011.Sept.1, and the NY Fun Exchange [#NYFE] 2012.Sept.17
    • - #LiveReplays of Pre-Occupy Wall Street direct action stunts in Wall Street by the original OWS Arts and Culture Posse #OWSACP
• (Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/370272566379787/  )

*Time in the Mind of the Anarchives Pt 2 [#TITMOTA2]: Potluck/Potlache

Revolutionary Games, in collaboration with the Occupational Art School, invites you to the latest in its series of salons: the #TITMOTA2 Potluck & Potlache will be a free space to participate in an art exchange and give away of recipes, books, media, art...whatever items of substance that you want to send out into the world. This event is a community BBQ and potluck, a review & replay of the first #TITMOTA, and a playground for games, music, and memees; bring things to share with everyone. #OASNode0 invites you to a potlache of orphan works that we commit the annals of the Anarchives by documenting their current presence and sending them into the world with new stewards (who collect, care for, & document the item's changes over time). YOU could already be the new host of an item from the Anarchives! We invite you to bring something to send out as well, something of your own to share with the world through the collection of this revolutionary community archive. As with any valuable experience, expect to come away with more than you came...

• (Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/154708874653530 )

Novadic Song in 7+ Parts

Dearly beloved,

Please find attached this novadic song for voice, guitar, subway train, whistle, siren, drunk girls, wind, silence, etc. Free to download here; encouraged to play in any order:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s223//sh/b15eee1a-521b-4b6c-9490-fd70f4befaf8/08774e0860b39ae6fa9e67adc42f13a8

This was recorded from 2:30-3:40am on a pocket-sized hotness while finding my way from a shabbat dinner in Queens to a hot couch in Harlem, using a borrowed guitar, stealing melodies from singers I love (e.g. Calamity & the Owl) and words from the subway walls (do not pull the emergency cord, Emergency Workers...).

Excerpted Lyrics:
Wacky guitar...wacky guitar...oh no...oh no ooOOooOOooooo...and I wonder why the song is outside...We've got nothing left to do but play music on an empty subway platform...and o wonder why, the rails are electrified, why the floors all have their lights on (2x)...inside our minds, inside the heart, inside the hope of being One...and don't you wonder why the stars all healed inside, its not like were the last ones to consider the rain upon the sun...A Pyramid of muskets; a Teepee of guns...And don't you wonder why the lights are left on all night long...[whistles like clock chimes finding their own time]...and I wonder why, and I wonder why, and I wonder why, this song is outside. Ohhhhhhh ohhhh ooOOOooooooOOoo...

[Animation by Paul McLean, generated by Zen circles and compressed, digitized and/or dimensional simulations thereof... for OAS Node #1]

[PLEASE NOTE]:

Occupy with Art, Bat Haus and the Occupational Art School are pleased to announce that Jeremy Bold will be kicking off our Bushwick program at OAS Node #1 in August (details TBA soon).

WS2MS: Stage 2 [Press Release]

PRESS RELEASE

For Release in All Media

April 18, 2012

WALL STREET TO MAIN STREET
STAGE 2

Catskill, New York – The second stage of the landmark exhibition cycle Wall Street to Main Street [WS2MS] commences in April and continues through the end of May 2012. WS2MS will offer a variety of creative, fun and educational opportunities for the communities of OWS and the Hudson River region to explore, evaluate and imagine 99% alternatives to the status quo.

Installations along Catskill’s Main Street have sparked sometimes-intense responses from the town’s citizens, since the festival opened here on March 17. The programming of WS2MS demonstrates the organizers’ and artists’ sustained commitment to establishing common ground for lively and spirited exchange. Our goal is to encourage democratic art and free speech. To that end we are trying to be responsive and responsible to our generous hosts, the people of Catskill.

The art in Wall Street to Main Street communicates the amazing breadth of emotion, vision, and drama that is Occupy, which Naomi Klein characterized as “the most important thing in the world now.” Art and artists have been central to OWS since the occupation of Liberty Plaza in the financial district of Manhattan on September 17, 2011. WS2MS offers viewers a window into the ideas, dreams and inspirations arising from the movement that has spread across the globe.

In Stage 2 of WS2MS, we will engage in skill-sharing workshops, demonstrations, performances, discussions, panels, tours and more.  Almost all the WS2MS Stage 2 events are being offered for free. As the program evolves through April and May, WS2MS, like OWS, will continually evolve and re-shape. That means more art exhibits, concerts and events will be launched over the remaining weeks in our schedule. See the WS2MS sampler listings below for details, or visit www.greenearts.org/ws2ms for the complete, up-to-date calendar.

• WS2MS is proud to present the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s presentations “Practice Where You Occupy” with the Mobile Design Lab team discussing their water, food and energy solutions for Zucotti Park from 11am-1pm and “Solution Sets for Main Street” from 2-4PM (April 21, 408 Main Street).
• The following Saturday, April 28, will feature “Change Is in the Air,” a seminar with Glenn Leisching based on our relationship with nature and familial ancestral heritage.
• If you’re interested in making art, sign up for Emily Bruenig’s free screen printing and bookmaking workshop (462 Main Street on April 29 from 1-3PM).
• If you’re just out for a walk and a great overview of WS2MS, join New York based artist and educator Ellen Levy and Occupy with Art organizer Paul McLean for a walking salon tour of the gallery and window spaces of WS2MS. The tour meets at the arts council, 398 Main Street, on Sunday May 6 at 11AM.
• Green workshops include Franc Palaia’s Eco-Bulb demo/class, a 100% solar option for sheds and other buildings (May 12 from 1-3PM, 408 Main Street).
• Canadian artist Joel Richardson will offer a two-day stencil painting workshop to help you create your own designs and a custom Suitman illustrating Catskill’s economic history (May 12 and 13, 10AM-2 PM, 473 Main Street - $50, with advance registration). 
• For the literary crowd, on May 12 the poet Sparrow will host “Speaking to the Gods,” a reading and conversation about our relationship to the great poets at Occupy Books, 450 Main Street from 4-6PM. He will also host “Silence Poetry”  from 2-4PM.
• “Awaken the Dreamer/Changing the Dream” on May 13 (10 AM-3 PM, 344 Main Street) will present a vision for an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on earth.
• Poet, author and educator Sam Truitt will lead a day of panel discussions and workshops at Occupy Books on Saturday May 19 from 11 AM-4PM and with a reception from 5-7pm (details TBA on the GCAC website and here, closer to the launch date). 
• Community artist extraordinaire Matt Bua will teach a sustainable living/drawing workshop, envisioning life off-the-grid (May 26 from 4-6pm).
  
  

For more info, contact:

• Fawn Potash: fawn@greenearts.org
• Paul McLean: artforhumans@gmail.com

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WS2MS: Saturday [#m31] - The ILLUMINATOR & Elizabeth Blum!

Wall Street to Main Street programming for this weekend:

Saturday, March 31, 7:45 PM Mark Read’s shape-shifting van, The Illuminator lights up Catskill’s Main Street. This mobile activist tool converts to an Occupy Wall Street library and cinema with hot cocoa and popcorn served while viewing short documentaries and cartoons about the Occupy movement. Pocket park at 355 Main Street, Catskill.   Also, meet guest artist, Elizabeth Blum, activating her streaming light projection installation at 365 Main Street, 9 PM.

Concept sketch for Liz Blum's installation at WS2MS

• More info on WS2MS at greenearts.org
• More about Illuminator actions earlier this week!

WS2MS: SAVE THE DATE!

The Great Tortilla Conspiracy is coming to Catskill for "Wall Street to Main Street" in April! This is going to be amazing!

DON'T MISS IT!

LL:O - Occupy with Art Flash Mob!!!

[LINK]

Come flash mob to The Beatles' Revolution with us!

Three easy steps:

1. Learn the dance using this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8dcrngOWv4&feature=youtu.be
2. Show up on March 3, 2012 at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza
   ... (125 East 8th Street Eugene, Oregon) at 4:15pm.
   
3. Bring friends and boogey down to The Beatles at 4:30pm.

Come support the Occupy movement by being a part of 'Low Lives: Occupy!' a unique one-night-only program of live performance art, happenings, and public actions, simulcast to presenting host venues around the world.

'Language of Revolution' - Eugene's contribution to the festival - uses Occupy hand signals to create a fun, easy dance for anyone and everyone to enjoy and join in!

Low Lives: Occupy! will take place on Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 6 -10 pm (EST).

Watch the live simulcast on March 3 at http://www.occupywithart.com/llo-live-channel/

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OwA @Activist Technology Demo Day [EYEBEAM] Tomorrow!

Occupy with Art will be participating in Activist Technology Demo Day, hosted by EYEBEAM, tomorow [Saturday, January 28 from 3-6PM]. Come down, get your Occupy activist geek on, and meet/swap ideas with our team and other similarly occupied peeps (like the Tech-op wizards of OWS). We'll be talking about the upcoming OwA projects like Wall Street to Main Street, Low Lives: Occupy, CO-OP/Occuburbs/-fest, the OWS Spatial Team residency at Hyperallergic, passing out the Yoko Ono/OWS Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park multiples, and swapping info on how OwA and Occupy artists around the globe are imagining new models for 99% economies, exhibitions, alliances, and more, and how today's latest technologies are enabling our efforts and the movement as a whole. Come & join us!

Here's the press release:

Activist Technology Demo Day
http://demo-day.org

Saturday, January 28 3-6pm

Urban Research Group 

Eyebeam Art + Technology Center

540 W 21st, New York, NY 

http://eyebeam.org

From Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, technology has played an important role in shaping contemporary resistance and the representation of these events in the media. What new tools of protest and occupation have emerged over the past year? How does their use help to shape tomorrow’s democracies? The Urban Research Group @ Eyebeam and The Public School New York  have invited activists, technologists, artists, designers, and community organizers who have a working prototype of an activist technology to occupy a worktable at Eyebeam and share their work with the public. Drawn from proposals submitted through an open call, we have selected a group of projects and communities that extend the creative use of technology and its social implications. Our interest is in creating a platform for encounter, conversation and collaboration. Visit http://demo-day.org/projects for participating project information.

This public event will culminate with a panel discussion at 5pm with special guest Stephen Duncombe, Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communications of New York University and co-creator of the School for Creative Activism; Mary Mattingly, Eyebeam Fellow and the creator of  Waterpod; and moderated by Taeyoon Choi, Eyebeam Fellow and member of The Public School New York committee.

OWS events at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn - Jan 5 to Jan 11, 2012

I want to invite you to a very exciting action at the Invisible Dog
Art Space (51 Bergen St. in Brooklyn). It will be for 7 days, from
January 5th until January 11th. Here's the deal:

Steve Valk, a choreographer and activist from Occupy Frankfurt was
invited to organize a series of performances as part of the PS122 Coil
Festival. He thought it would be a great opportunity to "Occupy" a
performance space, and approached a few of us from Arts and Culture in
early December about a collaboration. Steve is excited about having a
dialogue with with OWS artists, writers, and activists of all kinds,
and a group of about six of us from OWS have collaborated with Steve
to prepare this event. So far, it's looking mighty good.

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Occupy Art #f12

Occupy Art: Hi there, shall we collaborate on this?

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“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” - Albert Einstein

February the 12th has been announced as an international day of creative action for the worldwide Occupy movement.

Stemming from Occupy Melbourne, the home of the ‘tent monsters meme’, this day is all about coming at things from different angles, playing with reality and having some fun in these very serious times.

Exhibitions, music, street-art, performance, theatre, you name it, lets infect it with a bit of Occupy creativity.

Spread the word, lets start this creative virus. Here is a little video:

http://youtu.be/iSxgHHfZvGs

To discuss and collaborate please join the Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Art-International-Day-Of-Creative-Action-Feb-12-F12/346946421987719

Or if Tumblr is your style:

http://occupy-art-feb12.tumblr.com/

Please use the hash tag #F12

Please contact carlscrase@gmail.com with further questions.

Join students from SVA for ”I Win. You Lose.” - Dec 13, 2011

“I Win. You Lose.” A Call to Action by students from the School of Visual Arts. Participants needed to occupy every corner on Wall Street and deliver a message…. !

WHAT, WHEN WHERE….
We are….
….shocked by the unabashed corruption and self-interest that runs rampant throughout corporate America.
….faced with a life-time of debt in the pursuit of an education.
…the 99%.

Energized by the ideals and actions of Occupy Wall Street, we want to make our message heard and let the 1% know we will not be ignored nor can our path be bypassed.

Occupy every corner of Wall Street and New York’s Financial District at lunch time participate in the action: “ I Win. You Lose. ”
Join us on Tuesday December 13, 2011.
Orientation meeting at 12:00 noon at Louise Nevelson Plaza Triangle (at the junction of Liberty St., Maiden Lane and William St.).
Action begins at 12:30.
For more information contact Kirby at:
http://www.twitter.com/kikibraga (twitter) | @kikibraga (ows) | http://www.IWin-YouLose.blogspot.com

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Occupy Museums & Occupy 477 Stand against Foreclosures - Dec 6, 2011

477 W. 142nd Street is a landmark building on Alexander Hamilton's former estate. The building has served for decades as a residence for low-income families and been a key site of the black community in New York City. The house is currently facing foreclosure by Madison Park Investors LLC and E.R. Holding. Brutal tactics have been used to try and force residents out, including the sabotage of the building's boiler as the winter months approach.

December 6th marks the international day of action for Occupy Wall Street against the foreclosures led by the 1%. On this historic day Occupy 477 and Occupy Museums join forces to stand against gentrification and stand up for the right to housing for all!

It just so happens that The Museum of Finance on Wall Street is housed in the former headquarters of the Bank of New York, founded by Alexander Hamilton—America's first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton created the country's financial system. On December 6th, we will march a replica of 477 W. 142nd Street to the Museum of American Finance, and offer it as an exhibit of the damaging effects of Wall Street’s financial system on American’s everyday lives.

December 6th
12:00 PM ----Meet at 477 West 142nd st. HDFC
3:00 PM----Arrive at Museum of American Finance, 48 Wall Street, New York

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Philip Glass and Lou Reed speak at Occupy Lincoln Center - Dec 1, 2011

Occupy Museums protests the anti-democratic policies of Lincoln Center and Bloomberg at Satyagraha

Occupy Museums to protest the anti-democratic policies of Lincoln Center and Bloomberg on the last performance of Satyagraha Thursday December 1, 2011 at 10:30PM.

It is no doubt timely that Philip Glass' opera 'Satyagraha'--which depicts Gandhi's early struggle against colonial oppression in South Africa--should be revived by the Metropolitan Opera in 2011, a year which has seen popular revolutions in North Africa, mass uprisings in Europe, and the emergence of Occupy Wall Street protests in the United States.

Yet we see a glaring contradiction in ‘Satyagraha’ being performed at the Lincoln Center where in recent weeks protestors from Occupy Wall Street have been arrested and forcibly removed for exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceful public assembly.

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SUNDAY, 11/20: Yes Men lab drum circle at Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.

Massive 24-hour DRUM CIRCLE and JAM SESSION party starting tomorrow, Sunday at 2pm, outside Mayor Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.

Tie-dye, didgeridoo, hackeysack welcome! No shirt, no shoes, no problem! And if you don't have talent, don't worry: FREE DRUM LESSONS offered! Also on offer: collaborative drumming with the police!

Even though this is a 24-hour drum circle, don't be late! The mayor loves evictions. Who knows what'll happen? In any case, there'll be an afterparty in world-famous Central Park right afterwards.

Please spread this announcement (www.yeslab.org/drumcircle) as far and fast as you can!

Occupy Printed Matter - November 19, 12-5PM

this Saturday (11/19) from noon to 5pm, we will be continuing our Occupy Printed Matter action.

We will be decorating their window with a new display of Occupy Wall Street art and occupying the sidewalk in front of their store with art…perhaps silkscreening this week, perhaps sign-making, perhaps life drawing, perhaps a visit from Occupy Legoland.

If anyone would like to contribute work–work small enough to be hung in a living collage in a store window, or from part of the adjoining ceiling space, or sculptures with a small enough footprint to fit on a relatively narrow sill–we will be evaluating and striving to accept as many submissions as possible at Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue between 22nd & 23rd, from 12-5pm tomorrow.

16 Beaver Teach-Ins, Sunday 11/20/11

Sunday - 11.20.11 -- Two Events -- Two Teach-Ins -- One Horizon

Event I -- Demystifying the Economic Crisis

What: Teach-in / Discussion with Paul Mattick

When: 4pm
Where: moved to 90 5th Avenue
Who: Free and open to all
For details please visit: http://allcitystudentoccupation.com

Some friends will be convening a series of analyses around the economic crisis. This, first in the series, Demystifying the Economic Crisis, will be with Paul Mattick (Adelphi, Philosophy) - author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism (2011)

To what do we owe the misery and economic hardship currently sweeping the globe, giving birth to a number of social movements including that of Occupy Wall Street? Reckless banks? Human greed? Amoral politicians? Financial speculation? Partial answers at best, bourgeois obscurities at worst. Come join in a discussion which seeks to expand the discourse circulating throughout the current US occupation movement.

Event II -- Art, Work, and Occupation

What: Teach-in / Discussion with Greg Sholette
When: Sunday, 11.20.11 at 7:00PM
Where: 16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
Who: Free and open to all

The evening's event will be a teach-in and discussion with artist, critic, and educator Gregory Sholette concerning the history of artistic
engagements with the politics of work since the 1960s. While focused on past traditions and initiatives, the presentation will open onto a group discussion of more recent artistic, theoretical and political developments related to concepts such as precarity, post-Fordism, immaterial labor, the cognitariat, and what Greg himself has called "dark matter." This
discussion will consider how these histories and concepts might be (re)activated relative to the Occupy movement, including but not limited to that of New York City as it enters a "post-Zuccotti" phase following the eviction of November 15th. Report-backs and reflections from November 17th actions are more than welcome following Greg's presentation.

Here are some points and questions devised in collaboration between Greg and 16 Beaver for possible discussion following his presentation:

1. What does the phrase "art worker" mean today, and how does it relate to the broader field of cultural labor that is so crucial to driving the uneven geographical development of cities such as New York?

2. In what ways have art and cultural workers more broadly contributed to the discourse and practice of occupation over the past two months? How have they been involved with the framing, staging, and messaging of the overall movement, on the one hand, while also beginning to organize themselves qua workers under the umbrella of "the 99%"?

3. How has the advent of the Occupy movement challenged art workers to recalibrate their relationship to the networks, economies, organizations, and institutions involved with the production and consumption of art and culture in some form of another?

4. What would it mean to "occupy the art world"? Does this question make any sense without a moment of self-recognition in which we see ourselves as a kind of culturally-redundant surplus to the very system that stamps out the professional passport for "artist" in first place? Are these very designations not complicated by the structural dynamics of precarious labor itself, in which many artists simultaneously work as art handlers, assistants, interns, janitors, students, adjuncts, parents, and beyond? How might an interrogation of the identity-card "artist" open up new possibilities of alliance and coalition with workers and activists in extra-artistic fields?

5. What is the ultimate goal of organizing art workers? Is it just about making things more fair by redistributing the art world's "real estate"? or should it not also address a deeper set of questions concerning time, labor, and value relative to the disciplinary imperatives of
neoliberalism? How do we negotiate in ideological and organizational terms the fact that the entrepreneurial models of subjectivity mandated by neoliberalism often appeal to an image of artistic flexibility, autonomy, and ingenuity, as exemplified by Richard Florida's infamous paradigm of the "creative class"? What if any new forms of class consciousness might the Occupy movements entail for workers in the artistic field in
particular and the cultural field more generally?

6. If the work of artists today somehow embodies and models the flexible, precarious, socially cooperative yet competitive, professional, cognitive, immaterial, relational, affective dimensions of the post-fordist worker; then what might an inquiry into the specific conditions or qualities of such a work imply or reveal for contemporary political struggles?

More information about these events: http://www.16beavergroup.org/11.20.11.htm

Occupy Yourself

Occupy Yourself… We are living Installations

The Movie

Michael Alan 

In solidarity with the occupation of Liberty Square

AT Judson Church entrance  

55 Washington Square South

Saturday, November 19th, 7pm till 10pmish

Free

a film about change, the limits of freedom, and an attack on fear. Working with the human body, metamorphosing into a living breathing installation that demonstrates we can withstand anything put onto us. Through intricate connections and juxtapositions in the guise of random chaos, these living installations transcend the injustices of the material world by employing these same materials upside down. We are more than property. We are more than buildings. We are part of Life. Living, breathing potential fire. With the ability to do anything. This is about people, not about businesses, faceless corporations or technology.

Through the simplest materials mixed and smashed, masks, multiple textures, stolen objects, and cut-up drawings rearranged artist Michael Alan adds on to his team of friends, and family. These fearless art activists armed, activated Glue-sprayed flesh joins together, splattered to combine into one boundless, self-aware living work of awarness. This artistic expression is in direct response to the confusing, uncertain and downtrodden world we all seem to experience. Occupy Yourself is a call to all individuals to become aware that limits are self-imposed and can be changed by going beyond barriers, thinking outside what you what should do, and joining together to overcome our imagined adversaries.

Action

OccupyYourself the movie will project on the Church entrance of Judson, were the political asylum is being held for the occupiers. Project it onto the entrance, then repeat and project many times, giving positive messages throughout the night to whoever shows. Everyone is asked to meet at 7pm at entrance of the church for a night of peace, and positive celebration of life. 

Michael Alan, Garry Boake, in solidarity with the Occupation of Liberty Square invite you for a night of Old time projection, awareness, and fun.This is a peace full action symbolizing Freedom and a pause in time, a new start, The entrance of the church represents a new beginning. OccupyYourself, Live Now, lets all get activated. Projection on the streets is a way to speak to the world around you. 

Cast and crew:  Garry Boake, Dave Modello, Theresa Magario ™, Michael Alan

Steev Perez, Raquel Mavecq, Kim De'ville, Kenny Scharf, Worm Carnevale, Teddi Rogers, Raquel Echanique, Dylan Morgan, Dave1,

Jarvis Jun Earnshaw, Emil BN,  George Marango, Nick Greenwald, Ana Andrade,  Julie Turner and many more



OCCUPIED BLUESTOCKINGS

OCCUPIED:  AN OCCUPY MOVEMENT GROUP SHOW
EXHIBITION: NOVEMBER 14TH THROUGH DECEMBER 8TH
OPENING RECEPTION: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH, 7-10PM

OCCUPIED, is an art show and events series inspired by the evolution of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, hosted by BLUESTOCKINGS.  Over 30 artists from around the world contributed posters, prints, signs, photographs, drawings/works on paper, and multimedia installations.  The show opens Monday NOV 14th and runs through DEC 8th, 2011.  The show and events series is intended as a "cultural benefit" for OWS Arts&Culture and BLUESTOCKINGS. It will be a vehicle through which to engage in dialogue and contemplation of the OWS movement thus far.

Come out to BLUESTOCKINGS this MON NOV 14th @ 7PM to celebrate the opening night of OCCUPIED featuring artwork inspired by, and from artists working with the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Tonight’s program also includes performance, music, food, drink and discussion. The exhibition will be up through Thursday, December 8th.

OCCUPIED: AN OCCUPY MOVEMENT GROUP SHOW runs November 14th thru December 8th at Bluestockings 172 Allen St, NYC, NY (1 blk south of Houston St @ Stanton, 2nd Ave stop on the F train).  The opening party is Monday November 14th, 7 to 10pm, is free and open to the public.  For more information contact Bluestockings at 212-777-6028 or art@bluestockings.com. www.bluestockings.com, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154380834660987, http://www.facebook.com/bluestockingsnyc

BLUESTOCKINGS is a volunteer powered and collectively owned radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through words, art, food, activism, education, and community, we strive to create a space that welcomes and empowers all people. We actively support movements that challenge hierarchy and all systems of oppression, including but not limited to patriarchy, heterosexism, the gender binary, white supremacy and classism, within society as well as our own movements. We seek to make our space and resources available to such movements for meetings, events, and research. Additionally, we offer educational programming that promotes centered, strategic, and visionary thinking, towards the realization of a society that is infinitely creative, truly democratic, equitable, ecological, and free.

This Wednesday Occupy Museums once again stands in solidarity with the art handlers at Local 814 who have been locked out of their jobs for three months. Despite pulling in record profits last year, Sotheby's is demanding wage and benefit cuts and has hired unskilled replacement art handlers at a lower wage. The union has stood vigilant on the picket lines against these injustices for twelve weeks, but are still without a fair contract. Join us Wednesday November 9th, on the picket line outside of Sotheby's contemporary art auction to show your support and solidarity for Teamsters Local 814!

Schedule of Events:

Wednesday November 9th, 2011

4PM Meet in Liberty Park

4:45 Occupy the Subway

5:30 Meet with Teamsters Local 814 and Hunter College Students and March to Sotheby's!

Occupy Union Square - SUNDAY, Nov 6, 1PM

Public Movement will be performing in Union Square at 1PM, followed by a GA initiated by several members of the Arts & Culture Working group at 1:30PM.

We will be meeting at Libery Plaza at 10AM to make signs and discuss agenda items for Occupy Union Square, and heading over to Union Square around noon. Performance starts at 1PM, the GA will begin at 1:30PM. Join in and bring your friends.